As hard as it may be for those of you out there who know me to believe, I tend to spend lots of time in front of my computer. I can only imagine the shock that admission might be causing some of you. Some of that computer time is spent trying out different things with my photographs in Photoshop. I particularly enjoy trying to play with different Filters in the program. One filter that I have learned to have fun with lately is the Sumi-e filter. Sumi-e is an ancient Japanese art form of brush painting, which I would have probably never discovered had it not been for Photoshop. I like the effect that the filter has on my photographs, making them look kind of like a painting. I've tried it with a few of my photographs now, but the debut on this website will belong to this image of the band Steel Panther. I attended a concert by Steel Panther and Future Villains back
in May of this year. I managed to get my camera into the venue and took lots of photographs. You can see the shots I took
of Steel Panther here and the shots I took
of Future Villains here. Getting back to the transformation, while using the Sumi-e, the Photoshop program asks you to use different kind of brush strokes. After trying out several different combinations, I ended up using a short stroke width with a high stroke pressure. The final result is what you see in the second photograph. The original photograph was shot at f/4.5, 1/320sec, ISO 3200 at 50mm. You can also see that I cropped the second photograph a little bit to get rid of the microphone stand and to put the cell phone that is in the foreground of the photograph more in the corner. I tried other brush stroke filters on this photograph as well, but I've yet to get them where I like. Maybe we'll see this image up here in another form some day.
in May of this year. I managed to get my camera into the venue and took lots of photographs. You can see the shots I took of Steel Panther here and the shots I took of Future Villains here. Getting back to the transformation, while using the Sumi-e, the Photoshop program asks you to use different kind of brush strokes. After trying out several different combinations, I ended up using a short stroke width with a high stroke pressure. The final result is what you see in the second photograph. The original photograph was shot at f/4.5, 1/320sec, ISO 3200 at 50mm. You can also see that I cropped the second photograph a little bit to get rid of the microphone stand and to put the cell phone that is in the foreground of the photograph more in the corner. I tried other brush stroke filters on this photograph as well, but I've yet to get them where I like. Maybe we'll see this image up here in another form some day.
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